$35,000 - 8' circumfance "INVESTORS ~THIS TREE MAKES FOR A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR RETURN ON YOUR MONEY, THIS TREE IS IN GREAT DEMAND AND WILL PAY FOR ITSELF OVER AND OVER AGAIN. OPPORTUNITY IS KNOCKIN " http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5573137135&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
$5,000 - 10' circumfrance "Black walnut is a very expensive wood, making this a good investment." http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4372390763&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
$3,000 - 81" circumfrance "You don't have to wait years and years to get this magnificent black walnut tree, it is here for you to bid on. Its value is tremendous and your investment capital will turn many times over!" http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4373572234&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
WOW!
Are all the nails included? or do you have to pay extra?
:D :D :D Neighbor I thought we had lost you for a minute there. I had to do some rough math, and from their measurements it looks like about 3400 bf and for $43,000 it would be right at $12.50 /bf. Now why aint nobody bid on them trees yet? :D :D :D Course scary thing is somebody is just liable to. :o :o :o
WOWWEE!!
I'm EXCITED!!!
I want one!
I wonder if they'll ship it to Aussieland???
hehe
Seriously, though, I wonder whether you could get into trouble with statements like:
"HIS TREE IS IN GREAT DEMAND AND WILL PAY FOR ITSELF OVER AND OVER AGAIN"
"Its value is tremendous and your investment capital will turn many times over!"
I mean, um, What ever happened to false advertising laws???
Does this mean if I buy the tree and it DOESN'T return my 'investment capital' many many times over, will they compensate me??
asy :D
CAVAET EMPTOR
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I bet the $3000 guy started his price at what a tree removal service said it would cost to get rid of the tree. :D
I love the pic with the tire swing, I bet an "investor" would get rich off the scrap metal alone. If this guy gets one bid he is as clever as the 15yr old boy who was auctioning off his virginity I heard them talking about on the radio last year.
Good grief. More of these dreamers with their walnuts. They sure have high expectations of their values. I wonder which on of the neighbors talked them into selling it on ebay. And what coffee shop counter were they discussing it at. ;D
Only in America ;)
The scary part is its three differant sellers, PA, NY and IL :D Walnut expensive? only if you don't know where to buy it
I think they used some kind of magic tape measure .
That or the first guy has a really, really tall playhouse there.
Good luck to them :D :D
If people will buy a cheese sandwich for thousands , I guess they'll buy anything. :o
We may all laugh at these things, but what we are seeing is an example of free marketing by someone who wants to get max dollars for their trees.
On a serious side, are we doing all we can to market our wood or services at top dollar? Should we not be more creative in our sales endeavors?
If they get a bid we won't be laughing any more they will
8) 8) 8) ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK 8) 8) 8)
I hope he really likes those trees, because they arent going anywhere anytime soon. :D :D
I wonder if you can place a negative bid on e-bay? You know, you pay me X and I will remove your ugly, metal infested, nut dropping tree from the premises. :)
Daren,
Sure wish I would have thought of that :D
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5571640932&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT
People will try to sell most anything only because others will by almost anything ::) ;)
Glad y'all got as many giggles as I did ;D
I had to go look as a fella called me yesterday wanting to sell me a yard Walnut. After I nicely explained that there was no market for it but that I might haul it for free if its good, he told me "no thanks, I'll sell it on eBay or treetrader(?)".
I imagine I'll be getting a call back in a week or two ;)
I looked at the first one for $35,000 and I am not sure that even looks like a walnut. Bark looks to light for me. Just my thoughts.
The one with the tire swing looks real bumpy at the butt. I got walnut trees all sawed i'll take half the 3000. for ;). Hmmm I gotta go back and look at this again maybe i'm selling to cheap ::)
So why aren't you guys rushing over to the 400 tree walnut plantation?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=48316&item=8184464993&rd=1
They'll be producing veneer in just another 12-15 years. That would make them the ripe old age of 20-25 years and have a dbh of 22" with a per tree value of $7000.
At $0.99, the price seems to be about right.
Ron they must have sold out and closed ;D. That link don't work. Darn a day late again and a doller short :D
I'm afraid the link got yooperized. It will work later I promise.
Still there,
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=48316&item=8184464993&rd=1
They actually believe the price of their 7-9 year old walnut to be $1000/tree.
I don't know where these guys get their values. My guess is that they've been sold a bogus bill of goods.
Woo-hoo, hot DanG, I'm rich 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
These trees are collector items. Each one is unique. Remember beanie babies?
I'm only bidding on the opportunity to talk to him about his trees, not actually buy thme or anyhting, just talk to him about them!!! That seems odd. Maybe I'll place an ad so somebody could have the opportunity to come to my house and fix it up while they foot the bill. Should sell like hot cakes!!!! What makes these people think that what they have is worth sooooo much?
I'm sending this to Mythbusters. ;) :D
When I see one of these adds I have to look at their sells history. He's sold 613 items with a 99.5% positive feedback, and it's all computer parts ranging in price from $5 to $35. No bearing on anything, I just find it interesting sometimes that the really high % rate is normally a bunch of cheap stuff and the occassional high-to good to be true kind of stuff.
$400,000 for 400 trees. At 10% down thats $40,000 up front, then he wants you to carry crop insurance for 10 years with him as the payee. ???
I'd like to know how much land these trees are on. That is, are they 5' apart or are they 30' apart, WAIT A MINUTE I not buying the land am I? I'm just buying the trees! :o If I bought 40 acres at $3,000 an acre and then spent $20/ tree that would be $200,000. I would have to wait an extra 7 to 9 years but with inflation wouldn't my trees be worth that much more? ::)
Another Walnut tree story.
Yesterday a lady called me about a "HUGE" (her words) Black Walnut in her yard. She wants it gone, she wanted me to pay her for the oppertunity to cut her tree down for her. Someone told her this woods is worth a lot of money. There are power lines, city street, house and fence all with in stricking distance of this tree.
As usuall, I declined her offer. I did tell her that once she gets this beast on the ground I will come in and haul the logs out for no charge. I offered the names and phone numbers of my tree service buddys. ;)
City folks. ::)
Mark
I only have one word for all of this, but it may take me more thna one breath to get it out.....
BWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Doc
Quote from: UrbanLogger on April 16, 2005, 10:20:14 AM
I'm sending this to Mythbusters. ;) :D
That is a GOOD idea!
Hum, I wonder if the silver maples I planted this spring will someday out run my 401(k)...
maybe I should plant some Birch so i can sell the bark to folks and tell them it make for some good home brewed beer.
Nope, you got that birch thing all wrong. I remember reading a recipe by Ewell Gibbons - the Grape-Nuts guy. He had a recipe for alcholic birch beer. But you needed the sap, not the bark.
So, what you need is a plantation of black birch trees. They really give off the sap in the spring. You could tap them and brew lots of beer. Or better yet, sell the rights to tap the sap. :(